{"id":122637,"date":"2015-09-08T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=5b79e32aae48e3f6c5be550aebb9413e"},"modified":"2015-09-08T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T23:00:00","slug":"image-based-general-relativistic-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=122637","title":{"rendered":"Image-based general-relativistic visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ego-centric, or first-person, visualization is a valuable tool for an introductory course in general<br \/>\nrelativity as well as for public outreach to provide a deeper understanding of the geometric<br \/>\ndistortion effects due to curved spacetime. To enhance this process, interactive visualization<br \/>\nallows us to scrutinize the effects in more detail, as the student can change the parameters and see<br \/>\nhow they influence the visual result without delays. The image-based technique, borrowed from<br \/>\nspecial relativity, is restricted to scenes where all objects can be considered to be infinitely far<br \/>\naway, such that one has to deal only with panorama images. While the accompanying Java application<br \/>\ncan be used already in beginning classes to teach general relativity, the underlying technical<br \/>\ndetails are addressed to the more advanced student who is also interested in implementation details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ego-centric, or first-person, visualization is a valuable tool for an introductory course in general<br \/>\nrelativity as well as for public outreach to provide a deeper understanding of the geometric<br \/>\ndistortion effects due to curved spacetime. To enhance t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-122637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}